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Lumbarda is a community on the south-east end of the island of
Korcula in the Dubrovnik and Neretva County, 130 km northwest of Dubrovnik, 1,200 inhabitants in the
single town in the community. The region was settled in 4 century
BC, Geek colony from which gravestones are preserved
(most notable the "psefizma", an inscribed stone
tablet). Since 15th century here were built numerous vacantions
residences (fortified with towers and loop holes!) for the
Dubrovnik and Korcula civic nobility and merchants and still
today this is an important tourist resort. The community was
established in 1997 by secession from the city of Korcula.
The coat of arms of Lumbarda is, according to the statutes,
"a thought out system of these symbols and colours":
white (stone - psefizma: a 4th century BC inscription
tablet), blue (sea - sky), golden-yellow (sun - vine sort grk),
green (pine - olive).
The flag is "thought out system of blue and
golden-yellow" (sic!).
Maybe someone understands this better then I am, but this must be
the wierdest description of symbols in Croatian legislation that
I have come by yet.
Source: Statut Opcine Lumbarda, 23.04.1998, Službeni glasnik
Dubrovacko-neretvanske županije, br. 9/1998, 30.12.1998.
Željko Heimer, 16 December 2006